Automobile head lamp



June 4, 1929. w|NTER AUTOMOBILE HEAD LAMP Filed Aug. 1, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet l A TTORNEYS.

June 4, 1929. wlNTER 1,715,527

AUTOMOBILE HEAD LAMP I I Filed Aug. 1, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 fi g4 I INVENTOR.

ATTORNEYS.

Patented June, 4, 1929.

were srA'rss IGNATSE'WINTZER, on WELLAND, ONTARIO, CANADA.

AUTOMOBILE HEAD LAMr;

" Application filed'August 1, 1928.

This invention relates to automobile headlights and has special reference to an'automobile headlight having a movable hood or shield. I

One important object of the invention is to improve the general construction of shielded headlights. I

A second important object of the invention is to provide an improved operating means for the shields of such headlights.

A third important object of the invention is to provide a quick acting connection between the shield of such a headlight and the operating means proper.

With the above and other objects in view as will be hereinafter apparent, the invention consists in general of certain novel details.

of construction and combinations'of par-ts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically claimed. 1

In the accompanying drawings like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views, and:

Figure 1 is a front structed'in accordance with this invention.

Figure 2 is a section on the line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4'is a section on the line 4-4 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a faceview of the lens removed from the headlight body.

Figure 6 is a face view of the reflector used herewith. f v

In the embodiment of the invention here shown there is provided a headlight body or casing 10 which may be of any preferred form but for convenience is here shown'as' hemispherical. Fitted in this body is the reflector 11 and the upper half of the rim 12 of this reflector is cut away as indicated at 13 so that a semi-circular slot 14 is left he 0 tween the reflector and thebody orhousing 10. In-front of this reflector is the usual lens glass 15 which likewise has'it's upper portion cut away as at 16 to provide a continuation of the slot 14. This lens is held in position by the usual ring 17. The reflector is also equipped with the lamp 18 and socket 19 in the usual manner. Mounted on the pivot 20 and shaft 21 is anorange peel segment 22 of opaque material, the pivot and shaft being so alined that the segment 22 other figures.

view of a headlight con- Serial No. 296,701.

swings through theslot 14 from housed posit on within the casing 10 as shown by dotted l nes in Figure 3 and the projected position shown by full lines in-the figure and in the Onthe outside of the housing is a casing 23 into which the shaft 21 projects and on the end of this shaft is a rock.

' arm 24. The casing 23 has asegmental slot 25 in one side and through this slot extends a lever 26 which is pivoted within the casing intermediate its ends on a pivot 27 so that the lever is provided with a short arm within the casing and a longer arm projecting therefrom. This lever has its short arm con nected to the extremity ofthe rock arm 24 by a C spring 28 of the compression type. The

rock ar1nf24 moves between stops 29, while the lever 26 also moves between stops 30.

Now considering Figure 4 for the operation y of this partof the mechanism when the lever 26 s rocked ina clockwise direction then the spring 28 will compress until its point of at- 'tachment with thelever 26 passes below. the

line connecting the point of attachment of the spring with the arm 24 and the axis of, the pivot 27. When this happens the arm 24 will snap upwardly by the expansion of the 7 spring and the orange peel segment 22 will be quickly retracted into the casing 10 and upon moving the lever 26 back to the position shown-in Figure 4 then reverse action will take places r I i The lamp bracket used herewith has a hollow cylindrical base 31 from which extends a hollow shaft 32 carrying brackets 33 which are secured to. the body or casing 10; Through the hollow arm 32 extends the rock shaft 34 which is provided with a rockarm 35 connected by a link 36 with the lever '26. Within the hollow base 31 the shaft 34 is provided with a doublc armed lever 37 and from.

he ends oftlie lever 37 cords or chains 38 i There has thus been provid a simple and eiiicient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.

It is obviousthat minor changes maybe made in the form and construction of the in vention without departing from the material spirit thereof. It not, therefore,desired to confine the invention to the'exact form herein shoWn'and described, but it isdesired to include all such as properly come Within the scope claimed;

' Having thus described the invention, What 7 ver arm and the rock arm, a rock shaft exis claimed as new, is:

In a headlight, a lamp housing, a reflector therein, a lens covering the front'of said reflector, said lens and reflector having periph-' eral cut away portions to provide an arcuate slot between the housing and the lens and "reflector, an orange peel segment having its ends pivoted Within the housing and movable between retracted and protracted positions through said slot, the pivot at one end .constituting a shaft, a rock arm fixed on said shaft, stops, limiting the movement of the rock arm, a lever pivoted intermediate its ends ad-' jacent said shaft and having one arm movable from one side to the other of the shaft beyond the limits of movement of the rock arm, a compression spring connecting the letending parallel to the pivotal axis of the segment, a rock arm on said rock shaft, a link connecting the last mentioned rock a'rmand V thelever, atWo armed lever fixed to said rock shaft intermediate its ends, and pull cords,

attached to the arms of the last mentioned lever for controlling said lever froma remote point.-

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

IGNATSE WINTER. 

